Doesn't
Ariel, the good Air Spirit in Shakespeare's play, The Tempest, look
sweet and innocent? Such a perfect New Age name for an Aquarian hippie
to take in 1975 to show his commitment to social change. What I didn't
know then was I had invoked a real Angel and a very powerful one at
that. Ariel has become the Archangel for the Age of Aquarius.

How Stephen became Ariel

In 1975 the
Archangel Ariel entered into the subconscious of a 31 year old man
named Stephen. Stephen was and is an artist, a writer, a social change
and environmental activist, and a veteran of the 1960's counterculture
revolution. Stephen wasn't a particularly spiritually conscious person
at that time and had no idea that he had invoked an angelic Entity
when he decided to change his name like many others of his
generation.

Stephen
wanted a name as far away as possible from the biblical name his
parent's christened him, the same name as his father's with his simple
carpenter's patriotism to America, right or wrong. And like many of
his counterculture generation, Stephen also was at war with his
parent's generation's values and national actions that had led America
into the Vietnam War and created a world constantly poised on the
brink of nuclear annihilation and ecological ruin.

Being born
in the sign of Aquarius, Stephen thought he chose what he believed to
be an appropriate Aquarian name, a non-Biblical name or so Stephen
mistakenly assumed at the time. Unconscious of the Angel's influence
Stephen renamed himself "Ariel" after Shakespeare's name for the good
Air Spirit in his play "The Tempest".

From that
moment on Stephen became, whether he knew it or not, whether he liked
it or not when he did eventually discover the Angel's presence in his
life, the human messenger of the New Millennium instructions delivered
to Earth by Ariel, the Spirit Messenger of EL, God Most High, the God
the Father face of the Holy One of Heaven and Earth.

Stephen was
known in his community as Ariel for fourteen years until he and his
father, both having undergone religious conversion experiences,
resolved their differences and Stephen could again honor his father's
name and reclaim himself as Stephen with Stephen's mission for God.

It's
important to understand that Stephen wasn't "channeling" Ariel.
Stephen was unconscious of Ariel's presence for several years. In a
way, Ariel lightly "possessed" Stephen. Stephen was under a great deal
of mental stress in 1975 due to the breakup of his eleven year
marriage and the collapse of a four year effort to establish a new
cooperative intentional community. Perhaps Stephen's natural psychic
defenses were down but in any event even with the pain of dissolution
and disillusionment Stephen was also receiving a stream of new
insights and ideas.

Under Ariel's influence Stephen discovered an
amazing new social change concept, a brand new but elegantly simple
biologically based evolution theory that explained the meaning of
history's rise and fall of civilizations and where social evolution of
the human race was leading. You can read all about this new theory of
social evolution in the Climax Theorychapter in the Creating Climax Civilization
book.

After receiving the Climax Civilization
revelation Stephen, now Ariel, got an idea from "out of nowhere" for a
new Bible, the Rainbow Bible, thinking of it as a novelty item and
another little jab at traditional society. He didn't understand the
real significance of the Rainbow Bible until years later. The Rainbow Bible
isn't what you might think it is. It's something new.

Stephen
went on to paint in the early months of 1975 a painting he considered
a visual dance celebrating his new name and his new start in life. He
named the painting "Ariel Lome"--Ariel for the Air Spirit of Aquarius
and Lome for the rich earth that grounded him. This painting became
Stephen's visionary art masterpiece, his best work to date* Even
though Stephen was a complete unknown in the art world within a week
of completion the Ariel Lome painting was personally selected by the
Curator of San Francisco's De Young Museum for inclusion in the 1975
San Francisco Rainbow Show.*

But in 1975, even
with the onset of what Stephen, now Ariel, called "holistic
consciousness", this man was still without conscious experience of the
reality of God or the spiritual world. All that changed four years
later at Easter in 1979.

Beginning
at Easter Stephen went through a profound religious conversion
experience. The experience completely overwhelmed his previous mindset
that couldn't give any sort of scientific explanation for the solid
stream of "synchronicity" events Stephen experienced continually for
three full days. Stephen had met God, the Holy One of Heaven and
Earth, for the first time. My religious
Conversionexperience chapter tells this true story of a prophet's spiritual
awakening.

If you're
looking for blissful enlightenment, you probably won't find it in
these web pages. I am Stephen in these pages and as Ariel's messenger
for this generation I am in the spiritual lineage of old time biblical
prophets and probably about as psychologically well adjusted as they
were. Although you won't find too much evidence of it in these pages
of visionary fire, I actually do have a reasonably good if warped
sense of humor. Anyone who thinks he's God's messenger to humanity
would have to keep from laughing at the impossibility of this delusion
of grandeur. Still, your Stephen aka Arielmessenger believes it deep
down inside and so he is compelled to share his visions of a new
theology with the world.

He is your
visionary missionary for the New Millennium. But that's all. Stephen
is not a constantly smiling guru with all the answers who will lead
you out of worldly concern to nirvana. An estimated 100 million people
have been killed in the 20th Century, the bloodiest century in all of
humankind's history. This bloodshed has to end to bring in the real
New Millennium whole and Holy. While millions suffer and thousands die
unnecessarily every day, there can only be treasured moments of bliss
for anyone who is spiritually aware.

Biomystical Christianityis
my spiritual activist religion. There's a lot of people stuck in the
pit who need help getting out.

World's oldest
carved figurine: an "ariel" or lion-man made 35,000 years ago.